SOME RARE AND INTERESTING SEA ANEMONES FROM PLYMOUTH. 



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ring, and above this an indistinct circle of purple. Disk fawn, with some 

 orange mottlings about the mouth region ; an indefinite white area 

 runs from the base of the two opposite " gonidial " tentacles toward the 

 lips, and from the bases of the remaining six tentacles of the primary 

 cycle run similar indistinct black bars, these radial markings divide the 

 rest of the disk into eight more or less irregular fawn-coloured, triangular 

 areas ; the mesenteries also show as pellucid white lines. Mouth usually 



Fii:. 1. — Etiwardsia clapnrcdi. Oral disk (greatly enlarged). 



elevated, lips pale. Tentacles translucent, blotched with opaque- white 

 and speckled with small red dots, the tips white : the white mottlings 

 appear mainly on the front face. 



S'pecimen (b). — A preserved example, obtained from mud, Jennycliff 

 Bay, April 12th, 1912. It was strongly contracted, and somewhat 

 damaged. Cuticle thin and brownish in colour, the mesenteries showed 

 here and there through the body- wall in an indistinct manner ; capitulum 

 and physa invected ; eight warted ridges were present, but not so strongly 

 developed as in the last example. Length 28 mm., breadth about 8 mm. 



